Shores of Macquarie Island.
Adelaide: Rigby, 1971. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
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On the evolution of the Australian marsupialia; with remarks on the relationships of the Marsupials in general.
London: Linnean Society of London, 1903. Quarto, three uncoloured plates. Contemporary quarter morocco and cloth, the bookplate of John Calaby. From the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, volume nine, part three. More
Type specimens of bird skins in the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, Unitied Kingdom.
Tring: British Ornithologists' Club, 1999. Octavo, coloured frontispiece, paperback. British Ornithologists' Club Occassional Publication, number four. More
Wired wilderness: technologies of tracking and the making of modern wildlife.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. American wildlife biologists first began fitting animals with radio transmitters in the 1950s. By the 1980s the practice had proven so useful to scientists and nonscientists alike that it became global. This book is a study of the..... More
Birds of Lebanon and the Jordan area.
London: ICBP, 1970. Octavo, colour plates, text illustrations, bookplate, dustwrapper. More
Life histories of North American diving birds: Order Pygopodes.
New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1946. Octavo, photographs, dustwrapper. More
Life histories of North American marsh birds.
New York: Dover Publications, 1963. Octavo, photographs, softcover. More
Life histories of North American shore birds: in two parts. Part one.
New York: Dover Publications, 1962. Octavo, softcover. More
Life histories of North American wood warblers: order Passeriformes.
Washington: Smithsonian Institute Press, 1953. Octavo, photographs, wrappers, partly unopened. Smithsonian Institution, Bulletin 203, More
Bugs in the system: insects and their impact on human affairs.
Reading: Helix books, 1994. Small quarto, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Moa: the life and death of New Zealand's legendary bird.
Nelson: Craig Potton Publishing, 2012. Quarto, photographs and illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper, scarce and sought after. 2013 Winner of the Royal Society of New Zealand Science Book Prize. Perhaps the most unusual and unique family of birds that ever lived, the moa were a clan of feathered monsters..... More
To Africa with the migratory birds.
London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. Octavo, photographs, publisher's cloth. More
Hawaiian birdlife.
Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1972. Quarto, colour plates, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
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Proceedings of the [twelfth] International Ornithological Congress: Helsinki, 5-12 June 1958.
Helsinki: Publisher unknown, 1960. Large octavo, text illustrations, publisher's wrappers, a very good set. More
Gli insetti: loro organizzazione, sviluppo, abitudini e rapporti coll'uomo.
Milan: Societa Editrice Libraria, 1909. Quarto, text illustrations. Publisher's wrappers, text completely loose in sections, some foxing. In Italian. Volume one: embryology and morphology. More
Fauna of New Zealand Number 33: Moranilini (Insecta: Hymenoptera).
Lincoln: Manaaki Whenua Press, 1995. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. More
Biodiversity in the balance: mitigation and adaptation conflicts and synergies.
Sofia: Pensoft, 2009. Octavo, paperback, figures, tables. Climate change and biodiversity loss are both pressing global problems. Efforts are being made to address the former through various mitigation and adaptation activities, but these may have consequences for biodiversity which are not identified or acknowledged. This book reviews how mitigation and..... More
The natural history of Orkney.
London: Collins, 1985. Octavo, photographs, texta line on bottom edge, fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. New Naturalist 70. One of the rarest of all New Naturalist, only 750 copies of the hardcover were produced. This is a genuine first with 'NN' on the spine, 500 copies of the paperback were..... More
Neo-Darwinism.
London: Edward Arnold, 1982. Octavo, softcover. The Institute of Biology's Studies in Biology volume 144. More
Variation in mammalian populations.
London: Academic Press, 1970. Octavo, text illustrations, very good copy in worn dustwrapper. Symposium of the Zoological Society of London, number 26. More
Inheritance and natural history.
London: Collins, 1977. Octavo, colour photographs, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist 61. More
The natural history of Shetland.
London: Collins, (1980. first edition). Octavo, photographs, bookplate, fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, scarce. New Naturalist 64. More
Novi commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Instituti Bononiensis, tomus tertius.
Bologna: Dall' Olmo et Tio, 1839. Quarto, 14 handcoloured (five folding) engraved plates. Modern binder's cloth, contents fine and crisp. Four papers by Bertoloni. 1. Continuatio historiae horti botanici et scholae botanicae Archigymnasii Bononiensis adjectis descriptionibus trium novarum plantarum, [1834]. Pp. 1-18, two handcoloured engraved plates (one folding). 2. Commentarius..... More
The Ostrich communal nesting system.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
In search of mermaids: the manatees of Guiana.
London: Petaurus Press, 1963. Octavo, illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More